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Offline GRUNHERZ

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New idea for bomber external views
« on: May 24, 2001, 02:40:00 PM »
With the recent removal of GV and PT external views there has been incresed discussion of external views on bombers, and this may increase with the upcoming introduction of the excellent LI2 model we have.

As most of us know the reson for external views is to simulate the all round visibility of a bomber with numerous gun stations. Some planes Like B17 have many while others like Ju88 and TBM and now IL2 have few. Yet all have the same external view model. Which is OK to me as it does simulate the larger crew having a better look around.

However I belive there is one serious issue dealing with external views that may have not been brought up, that is flying and fighting your bomber from the external view.
We have all had wild manuvering fights against B26s and B17s who dodge our fighters passes and who always seem to know where we aere and adjust accordingly. No matter what the gunners and other crew saw they could never tell the pilots exactly how and wehere to manuver to avoid an attack as the whole thing happend too quickly. But with AH wiew system one just uses the outside view and dogges the figters attacks and positions himself for a good gunshot. I know this is what I do, and its very unrealistic but I do it to survive.

So my suggestion to fix this is very simple, whenever the bomber pilot engages an outside view the bomber should do auto level and not be controllable in outside view mode. This way the bomber has a good view around but makes it more realistic when hes is trying evasives.

So basically my point is:

Outside wiew = Autopilot level.

Do you guys or HTC have any comments on this idea?

Offline Karnak

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New idea for bomber external views
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2001, 02:52:00 PM »
Heh, GRUN, I dodge and setup as well, but I never use the external views.  I know why it is there, it just breaks the sim feeling for me.

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Offline sling322

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New idea for bomber external views
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2001, 03:09:00 PM »
Hmmm...so I guess the ball turret gunner for instance would never shout to the pilot "Break right!!!" or "Break left!!" or anything like that over the radio?

All these buff conversations are getting a little ridiculous dont ya think?  Funny its always the same folks coming up with things to take away from others' enjoyment of the game.

Face it guys, some folks enjoy flying bombers.....if you take all the little concessions away from them then there wouldnt be anyone flying them anymore.  I personally dont have any problem with the external views on bombers...it doesnt bother me one bit if a person uses it or not.  As far as the guns, they dont bother me either.  It certainly seems to me that when I am in a bomber that the guns arent that powerful....but at the same time when I am attacking a buff, if I set the attack up badly then I am dead meat.



[This message has been edited by sling322 (edited 05-24-2001).]